On 2 August 2016, the new report titled, "The Cost of Hunger in Africa: the Social and Economic Impact of Child Undernutrition on Ghana’s Long-Term Development (COHA)" was launched in Ghana under the auspices of the National Development Planning Commission. According to the report, the economy of Ghana...
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On 4 August 2016, WaterAid and SHARE launched the report ‘The missing ingredients’ to highlight the degree to which national nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) plans and policies are coordinated and integrated to end malnutrition. Evidence shows that scaling up interventions that tackle the immediate causes of...
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By Denis Kovalenko, Corporate Grant Manager, Save the Children It’s five in the afternoon in Lilongwe and my colleagues are setting off from Save the Children’s office after a busy day...
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From 7 to 8 July 2016, SUN Government Focal Point, HE. Jean -Baptiste Ondaye, Secretary General of the Presidency, held a workshop in Brazzaville to identify and discuss budget allocations which contribute to the improvement of nutrition. Representatives from over twenty ministries were joined by UN...
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On 1 June 2016, the National SUN Secretariat and the Ministry of Planning Development & Reform in collaboration with other ministries & partners, organized a consultative meeting on the formulation of Pakistan's Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy. All stakeholders from line ministries, provincial departments, development partners, businesses, donors,...
Read MoreFrom 26 to 27 May 2016, leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) met in Ise-Shima, Japan, for their annual meeting to discuss issues of global economic governance, international security, and energy policy. The G7 is an informal bloc of industrialized democracies - the United States,...
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On 26 May 2016, the final of four roundtable discussions on Compact2025 took place in Malawi with State Vice President Dr Saulosi Klaus Chilima emphasising the need for Malawi to fight hunger and under nutrition. He stated that if it is not addressed, national and...
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On 9 May 2016, a delegation from Tajikistan were welcomed by colleagues in Nepal to embark on a six day "Tajikistan Study Tour". The tour allowed the Tajik delegation to receive practical knowledge about the activities underway in Nepal that are helping to direct the country's efforts...
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On 23 May 2016, in the side lines of the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, Ministers of Health were joined by nutrition champions in Geneva to talk about the status of nutrition globally. The event, titled "Accelerating National Progress on Tackling child Obesity and Child Undernutrition in...
Read MoreOn 23 May 2016, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition and the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted a high-level event on “Achieving Nutrition Security: A call for leadership, partnership and investment” in Lusaka, Zambia. The event was part of the African...
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